Netflix Top 10 & Nielsen Stats for Sex Education

Last updated: April 19th, 2024

In November 2021, began releasing weekly viewership data for its movies and series split into English and non-English. Below, we’ve built a search to see the hours viewed for any title featured in the Netflix top 10s over the past three years. In addition, we’ll also give you Samba TV and Nielsen top 10 data plus data from the Netflix Engagement Report.

All data is sourced from Netflix’s Top 10 data site, which releases new data every Tuesday. Views/CVE are only available for titles after June 2023.

Netflix top 10 data begins from July 4th, 2021 and currently goes up to April 14th, 2024
Nielsen Data begins from January 10th, 2021 to February 19th, 2024

Sex Education Top 10 Hours and Nielsen Overview

Sex Education posterNetflix Original Title
  • Season 1 added to Netflix on January 11th, 2019
  • Season 2 added to Netflix on January 17th, 2020
  • Season 3 added to Netflix on September 17th, 2021
  • Season 4 added to Netflix on September 21st, 2023
Description: Insecure Otis has all the answers when it comes to sex advice, thanks to his therapist mom. So rebel Maeve proposes a school sex-therapy clinic.
Language: English

Official Netflix Top 10 Data



Sex Education: Season 1

Views/CVE refers to Completed Viewing Equivalent - Number of hours watched divided by the runtime of the show/movie.

Week PeriodHours ViewedViews / CVERankWeek in Top 10
September 12th, 2021 to September 19th, 202114,880,000071
September 19th, 2021 to September 26th, 202127,380,000 (+84%)042
September 26th, 2021 to October 3rd, 202118,420,000 (-33%)063
September 24th, 2023 to October 1st, 202312,800,000 (-31%)1,900,00094

Sex Education: Season 2

Week PeriodHours ViewedRankWeek in Top 10
September 19th, 2021 to September 26th, 202122,030,00061
September 26th, 2021 to October 3rd, 202118,140,000 (-18%)72
October 3rd, 2021 to October 10th, 202112,760,000 (-30%)93

Sex Education: Season 3

Week PeriodHours ViewedRankWeek in Top 10
September 12th, 2021 to September 19th, 2021125,770,00011
September 19th, 2021 to September 26th, 2021160,420,000 (+28%)12
September 26th, 2021 to October 3rd, 202172,870,000 (-55%)13
October 3rd, 2021 to October 10th, 202142,120,000 (-42%)34
October 10th, 2021 to October 17th, 202128,190,000 (-33%)35
October 17th, 2021 to October 24th, 202118,380,000 (-35%)76

Sex Education: Season 4

Views/CVE refers to Completed Viewing Equivalent - Number of hours watched divided by the runtime of the show/movie.

Week PeriodHours ViewedViews / CVERankWeek in Top 10
September 17th, 2023 to September 24th, 202397,600,00012,000,00011
September 24th, 2023 to October 1st, 2023108,400,000 (+11%)13,400,00012
October 1st, 2023 to October 8th, 202353,800,000 (-50%)6,600,00023
October 8th, 2023 to October 15th, 202332,700,000 (-39%)4,000,00034
October 15th, 2023 to October 22nd, 202321,300,000 (-35%)2,600,00055
October 22nd, 2023 to October 29th, 202313,800,000 (-35%)1,700,00086

Netflix Engagement Reports

Engagement Report #1 - Hours Watched Between January and June 2023



Title Globally Available Hours Viewed Globally
Sex Education: Season 1Yes27,900,000
Sex Education: Season 2Yes22,600,000
Sex Education: Season 3Yes26,300,000

Nielsen Top 10 Data

Number of weeks in Nielsen top 10s: 8
Total Hours/Minutes from Nielsen Top 10s: 71.72 Million Hours (4,303 million minutes)
Week Start Week End Nielsen Rank Episodes Raw Minutes Converted Hours
September 13th, 2021September 19th, 2021324595 million minutes9.917 million hours
September 20th, 2021September 26th, 2021324856 million minutes14.267 million hours
September 27th, 2021October 3rd, 2021524469 million minutes7.817 million hours
October 4th, 2021October 10th, 2021924283 million minutes4.717 million hours
September 12th, 2023September 18th, 2023232634 million minutes10.567 million hours
September 19th, 2023September 25th, 2023232734 million minutes12.233 million hours
September 26th, 2023October 2nd, 2023732443 million minutes7.383 million hours
October 3rd, 2023October 9th, 20231032289 million minutes4.817 million hours